mark-scaf.bsky.social
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Doesn't it get exhausting shoehorning politics into every conversation where it doesn't belong? Let them be happy for crying out loud, it's hurting literally nobody to allow someone to experience pride and joy.
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It was from Gateway 2000 (or just Gateway if it was after 1998). They used the Holstein Cow for marketing since it was a Midwest company.
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I thought the STOCK Act just opened up transparency, but I was mistaken. Regardless, I was just correcting the statement that Martha went to prison for insider trading. She didn't. It was for lying and obstruction. If we can't convict citizens of it, what chance is there for Congress?
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Martha Stewart went to prison for obstruction and lying to federal investigators. Nancy doesn't need to lie.
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He won't be doing much recruiting. That was part of his contract - he has dedicated recruiting staff. I'm sure he will have to woo some 4-star recruits, but most of it will be delegated.
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Presumably, whoever wins the Nobel was paid for the actual work being awarded (depends on the field). There are more Nobel winners than MLB MVPs, and Soto only gets $500k if he wins one.
Professional sports salaries are ridiculous, but they're paid based on revenue they help produce.
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That was usually a feature on higher-end motherboards. Gigabyte made them standard across all boards for a while, but it's still an available feature.
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I understand, but traditional Medicare's MLR is equivalent to about 97% (at least it was when I was still in healthcare analytics a few years ago). Given there are no premiums, that's calculated based on the amount paid on claims and how much it costs to run the program.
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What is charged is largely irrelevant, unless you're self-pay. It all gets adjusted. Contractual adjustments negotiated per-payer are one of the many bureaucratic reasons healthcare is so expensive. Every health system has people to negotiate and maintain those rules in billing systems. Inefficient.
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The savings are on the back end, which cannot be realized with multiple systems in place simultaneously. Everyone pays into one risk pool, with one fee schedule (adjust for regional cost of living), a non-affiliated TPA for approvals, and anti-price gouging measures.
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Equipment/supplies/pharmaceuticals should also be price regulated. Expand the Medicare tax by rolling current premiums into it. Everyone paying into separate risk pools cannot be cheaper than one, especially when Medicare has 3% overhead versus 15% for private.
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Provider overhead is reduced drastically in a single payer system. Providers can't ditch that overhead while accepting private insurance. I worked in a contracting organization with hundreds of employees. Those organizations are expensive and wouldn't be needed. Plus simpler billing/collections.
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Insurance companies taking 15% of premiums for profit can't be cheaper than the government doing the same thing for a cost of 3% overhead. It hasn't worked because the rest of the system didn't change. Providers can charge less when they are sure to get paid and don't need administration in billing.
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A few less dollars on the front end, but they'd be saving a ton on the back end, and their billed to collected ratio would skyrocket, especially for self-pay patients that never pay, since they'd now be covered.
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This is short-sighted. Independent physicians have to get credentialed with private insurers and work out contracts for rates. They would no longer have to pay staff or a third party company to do that. Billing would be streamlined, fewer denials, no debt collection, etc.
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The only reason polio and smallpox were eradicated was because they were taken at such high rates. Measles can't survive if over 90% of the population is vaccinated. If you want them to be optional, then expect to be excluded from public spaces, because you are a danger to others.
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That's fine but his stance on vaccines is what is being discussed. If kids start dying of measles, polio, and smallpox again, yellow #5 in Mountain Dew is going to be very far down my list of things to be concerned about. "Little Tim died of measles, but at least preservatives aren't in our bread."
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Most of our imported oil comes from Canada (70% I think). We get other fuels at various stages of refinement from elsewhere, but Canada is our primary source of crude outside of what we pump ourselves.
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D is still a thing? It was a novelty language when I was a CS student (and I won't mention how long ago that was).
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Falling Down has #1 for me. The Game is probably #2.
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Using Ghislaine as their pfp was certainly a choice.
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*Fewer bots, and X has more of them than ever.